All of the videos submitted by the 52 finalists are available at www.MLBFanCave.com. Votes for individual contestants can be cast on the Fan Cave website.

This first wave of voting continues through 5 p.m. Wednesday. The 30 finalists passing through to the next stage of the contest will be determined by a combination of fan voting, quality of submissions and the amount of buzz generated by entrants through social media and coverage in the regular media.

Those 30 finalists will receive all-expenses-paid trips to spring training in Arizona. They'll be put through a series of challenges there to determine the final group of Cave Dwellers.

A still undetermined number of contestants will be declared Cave Dwellers after the spring training trip. Last year, there were nine.

Cave Dwellers will spend the entire 2013 season living in the MLB Fan Cave in New York City. While there, Fan Cave residents will have access to telecasts of all 2,430 scheduled major-league games.

The contest shifts to another phase during the season as residents chronicle their experiences in the Fan Cave via social media, blogs and videos.

A grand prize winner will be announced before the end of the World Series.

Levey is a graduate of Orange High School and Indiana University, where he majored in sports marketing. He said his lifelong love of baseball and job experiences in sports marketing have prepared him well for the Fan Cave contest.

After graduating from IU in 2006, he went to work for the Lake County Captains as a group sales assistant. After serving as manager of group sales in 2007 and manager of promotions in 2008, he was named director of promotions in 2009.

He stayed in that job through the 2010 season, when he left the Captains to be a self-employed specialist in search-engine marketing and optimization.

Levey said being self-employed and single gives him the leeway to be in the Fan Cave contest.

"Hopefully, I'll be one of the finalists and get to go to New York," Levey said. "If it doesn't work out, though, I'm very happy with my current situation."

No matter the outcome of his quest to be a Cave Dweller, Levey said his long-range goal is to get back into professional baseball in an administrative or marketing capacity.